1901 college football rankings

1901 college football rankings
Season	1901
Bowl season	1901–02 bowl games
End of season champions	Princeton

The 1901 college football season rankings included a ranking by Caspar Whitney for Outing.

Caspar Whitney

Writing for Outing, alongside his All-America Eleven for 1901, Caspar Whitney ranked the top twenty teams in the country at the conclusion of the season.^[1][2]

Whitney is designated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a "major selector" of national championships, and his contemporary rankings in Outing for 1905–1907 are included in the NCAA college football records book.^[3]

Rank	Team[1]	Record
1	Harvard	12–0
2	Yale	11–1–1
3	Michigan	11–0
4	Wisconsin	9–0
5	West Point	5–1–2
6	Princeton	9–1–1
7	Cornell	11–1
8	Wisconsin	9–3
9	Annapolis	6–4–1
10	Syracuse	7–1
11	Columbia	8–5
12	Pennsylvania	10–5
13	Minnesota	9–1–1
14	Dartmouth	10–1
15	Williams
16	Northwestern	8–2–1
17	Illinois	8–2
18	Chicago	8–6–2
19	Iowa	6–3
20	Tennessee	3–3–2

See also

• 1901 College Football All-America Team

References

1. Whitney, Caspar (January 1902). Whitney, Caspar (ed.). "The Sportsman's View-Point: Ranking of Teams [1901]". Outing. Vol. XXXIX, no. 4. Outing Publishing Company. pp. 477–487. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
2. Jenkins, Dan (September 11, 1967). Laguerre, André (ed.). "This Year The Fight Will Be In The Open". Sports Illustrated. Vol. 27, no. 11. Chicago. pp. 28–34. Retrieved February 8, 2016. Polls and systems to determine the No. 1 team are not nearly so ancient as the mere naming of the "intercollegiate champion" by a Casper Whitney or a J. Parmly Paret.
3. "National Champion Major Selections (1896 to Present)". 2022 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records (PDF). Indianapolis: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. July 2022. p. 114. Retrieved January 4, 2023. Caspar Whitney (1901-07), one of the founders of the first All-American Football Team. Also selected national polls for Outing magazine.